Jean Shepherd's Broadcast from Inside Lion Tamer Clyde Beatty's Cage

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Jean Shepherd's Broadcast from Inside Lion Tamer Clyde Beatty's Cage

New York City radio commentator on his broadcast of Jan. 30, 1976 -- WOR - told of working for a small TV station and being assigned to broadcast from inside the cage with famed lion tamer Clyde Beatty. Shepherd reported that he had no idea of the risk entailed until later reading about the episode in a book by Beatty. There is a larger lesson of the capacity to underestimate risk, whether occupational or financial or any other kind.